Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour.

Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East.

I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone.

The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others.

Like most North Americans, I'd been raised on the notion that milk is the first food, and everybody must like it because it's so good and so important for growing up and for being healthy.

In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery

Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can't use it as a regular source of food.